Synaesthetic Filter is a mobile pavilion for experimental music that is supposed to be temporarily assembled in public open or enclosed spaces. It attracts passer-bys to enter and get into contact with contemporary experimental music.
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exterior view - pavilion for experimental music
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Conventional concert spaces function like picture stages although our ears know no perspective but are rather immersed in sound. Furthermore the wide range of performances within contemporary music is not suited best through a neutral multifunctional space, but should generate a palette of transformable spatial instruments that trigger new experiments.
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flexibility of use.
surface and deducted pattern of normals
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model detail - acoustic elements in 35° position
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The pavilion acts like a visual and acoustic filter which allows flexible positioning of musicians and audience as well as the integration of the surrounding. Pivotable acoustic elements are arrayed along a surface as tangents (normals). Through rotation of the reflectors this simple rule produces a changing pattern that shifts between regularity and seemingly (because not readable) irregularity.
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parametric pattern study
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Visual and spatial qualities as well as certain acoustis properties can be modified and interlinked with musical effects of compositions. The pavilion’s appearance, depending on the position of the elements varies from dense to sparse, enclosed to transparent. The hairy mass of the pivotable panels produce no form but a flickering presence, like the sounds that emerge from it. The pavilion is no space to enter but a synaesthetic filter to immerse into.
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panels creating syneasthetic effects trough rotation.
the pavilion will be assembled in open and closed spaces
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model - opening of the acoustic panels to integrate the surrounding
animation of rotating acoustic panels
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Synaesthetic Filter was initially developed as a competition entry and was exhibited at the Aedes Gallery in Berlin (’Ohrenstrand’ - Architecture for Contemporary Music, Januar 2009). It was published in Architektur Aktuell (The Art of Competition, Springer-Verlag, March 2009). Synaesthetic Filter won the recognition price for Experimental Tendencies 2008. Further Information about the Project can be found at Dezeen.